Cyclone likely to hit Bengal, Odisha coasts by May 26, bring heavy rainfall: IMD

Coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal will receive heavy to very heavy rainfall in most places from the evening of May 25.

After Cyclone Tauktae battered the states along the west coast, another cyclone is likely to hit the east coast by May 26, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday. Coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal will receive heavy to very heavy rainfall in most places from the evening of May 25, said RK Jenamani, senior scientist, IMD. Jenamani said a cyclonic system was developing in the Bay of Bengal near the Andaman Sea. "On May 22, the cyclonic circulation will start as a system. The next day, it will start moving in a north and north-west direction," he said.